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[CHILDREN'S BOOKS & ILLUSTRATION] -- [RACKHAM, illustrator]. Cinderella. LIMITED EDITION. 1919. 
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$400 - 600
Price Realized
$826
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Lot Description
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS & ILLUSTRATION] -- [RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939), illustrator]. EVANS, Charles Seddon (1883-1944). Cinderella. London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann and J.B. Lippincott Co., 1919.

4to. Color-printed frontispiece plate tipped to mount within color-printed pictorial border, numerous illustrations by Rackham. Original buckram-backed green paper boards, upper cover with printed paper label, top edge gilt, others uncut; half-morocco slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, number 527 of 525 copies of the "Edition de Luxe" printed on English hand made paper (500 of which are for sale), out of a total edition of 850, SIGNED BY RACKHAM, with the additional color-printed plate by Rackham not present in the trade editions. Cinderella contains Rackham's characteristic silhouette images, exemplifying his post-World War I style. Latimore & Haskell, pp.49-50; Riall, p.134.


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